- Julian Assange is in Sweden and reportedly has sex with two different women.
- The Swedish Prosecutor's Office issues an arrest warrant for him following two separate allegations (one of rape and the other of molestation).
- Assange denies the allegations against him.

November 2010

- Stockholm District Court approves a request to detain Assange for questioning on suspicion of rape, sexual molestation, and unlawful coercion.
- Assange is not present at the questioning and Swedish police issue an international arrest warrant via Interpol.

Many of Assange's supporters have protested against his detention. Photo: TT

December 2010

- Assange gives himself up to London police and is taken to an extradition hearing.
- He is put in custody pending another hearing and later granted bail but prosecutors appeal and he is sent back to jail until a higher court can consider the issue.
- He is later granted bail and his supporters pay to have him freed for £240,000 (2,853,092 million kronor).

February 2011

- A court in south London rules that Assange should be deported to Sweden, something his lawyers appeal against the following month.

June 2012

- After the Supreme Court in London rules that Assange should be deported to Sweden to face questioning, Assange is granted political asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

July 2014

- Assange asks Stockholm District Court to reconsider his arrest warrant. The court says the warrant should stay in place, but Assange appeals the decision.

- Assange's lawyer formally takes his case to the Supreme Court in a final bid to persuade a Swedish judge that the arrest warrant against the Wikileaks founder could be lifted. However even if this case is thrown out, legal proceedings could continue.

- Sweden's Supreme Court rejects Assange's bid to have the European arrest warrant against him overturned, citing "strong public interest" to investigate the alleged sexual offences.

June 2015

- Swedish prosecutors reveal they have submitted a request to British and Ecuadorian authorities to question WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in London in June or July over rape allegations. The talks do not take place, with Swedish officials saying they were not granted permission.

August 2015

- The Ecuadorian embassy in London says in a statement that “on no occasion has any representative of the Kingdom of Sweden presented themselves at the embassy in relation to the Assange matter”.

- Swedish and Ecuadorian officials meet in Stockholm to hammer out a judicial agreement which, although general in terms, could pave the way for prosecutors to quiz the WikiLeaks founder at Quito's London embassy.

Julian Assange has been living at the Ecuadorian embassy in London for two years. Photo: TT

- Assange urges Sweden and Britain to let him leave the embassy in London after a UN panel rules he has been "arbitrarily detained" there for approaching four years. However, both countries reject the ruling. He later files a report to Stockholm District Court, asking it to drop the arrest warrant.

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